ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines emphasized writings frequently studied at the time, most of them authored by Holocaust survivors or pioneering scholars. In 1989, Berenbaum and the author dedicated Holocaust to “our students.” Primarily we had in mind the young women and men who had recently been in our classrooms. Convened on May 8, 2018, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of its twenty-fifth-anniversary observance, a symposium on “The Ethical and Moral Foundations of Holocaust Studies” was the prequel to the chapter. Travis Roxlau, the Center’s director, indicated that the Museum’s collection is likely to double during the next ten to fifteen years as aging Holocaust survivors die. In November 2004, the biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust took place at Brown University. With World War II and the Holocaust in mind, Albert Camus, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, made a statement as stark as it is bold.
